Petra, one of the new seven wonders of the world, gets crowded these days, especially when the cruise ships bus in crowds by the hundreds for a quick tour of this lost city in the desert.Maneuvering through such crowds creates a challenge for those who want to focus on what it must have been like to discover the awesome structures carved into the mountians.
After making our way along with the hundreds filing through, we were left to explore on our own, and seven dinars bought us time on a donkey and a glimpse of Petra beyond the tourist.route. With just a couple of hours left in our day, a local Bedouin guided a fellow journalist and I through caves and ruins off the beaten path. We felt like explores as we made our way up the mountain.
But adventure comes with risk andI found myself praying at times that the donkey I was riding would not walk off one of the cliffs as we climbed some steep and narrow steps.
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